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Join us for History of Medicine Week 2025!
Thanks to the Education and Outreach Committee, History of Medicine Week is back! Mark your calendars for October 6-10 to ensure you don’t miss the virtual events AAHM and CHSTM will host each day. As we did last year, we are seeking to demonstrate the value of the history of medicine to a larger audience. Our panels will connect current-day events with their longer histories. We’re also inviting our membership to bolster their skills in public communication (though writing op-eds or interviewing with media) and teaching while universities are under attack. Please note that some events are closed to AAHM members only. Registration links have been sent to the email associated with your membership. If you missed that email, please email Sarah at [email protected].
Our events include:
- Monday, October 6 at 12 CST: “Communicating Beyond the Academy: Historians, the Media, and the Public”
- Register Here
- Tuesday, October 7: Release of a podcast recording of “Federal Regulations: Progressive Era and Beyond”
- Use #histdrugregs to discuss!
- Bonus Event for Graduate Students! 2 pm CT “Surviving the Graduate Degree”
- Register Here
- Wednesday, October 8 at 3 CST: “Teaching as the University Burns: Practical Tips”
- (AAHM members only event – check your email for the registration link!)
- Thursday, October 9 at 2 CST: “Medicine Crossing Borders: Immigration and Health”
- Register Here
- Friday, October 10 at 3 CST: “Trans and Intersex Health from Past to Future”
- (AAHM members only event – check your email for the registration link!)
Our colleagues all around the country are also celebrating History of Medicine week! Check out these additional events:
Dittrick Medical History Center Presents the Anton and Rose Zverina Lecture
Adam Biggs, “The Incomplete Archive: Reconstructing Black Medical Education in the Twentieth Century”
October 7, 4:00-5:30 pm ET
Penn HSS Workshop with Stephen Viden, Associate Professor of History and Co-Program Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bryn Mawr
“Diagnosing the Shopping Bag Lady: Homeless Women, Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization, and the Limits of Feminist Liberation”
October 6, 3:30-5:00 ET
392 Cohen Hall, University of Pennsylvania
University of Minnesota Twin Cities, History Medicine Lecture “Holding History in Your Hands: Learning From Instruments.”
Panelists include Wayne Soon, Emily Beck, Caitlin Lenox, Michelle Roof, and Marcus Milani
October 6, 1:20-2:10 pm ET
Medical History & Bioethics Anniversary Celebration at University of Wisconsin-Madison
October 9-10
The Humanities in Medicine Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln hosts Catherine Burns of the University of Johannesburg for a talk entitled: “Faith, Hope, and Science in the Time of AIDS: The Sinikethemba Centre and McCord Zulu Hospital, Durban, South Africa,” October 6, 10 am CT
